Did we mention that the cost of the Olympic Aquatic Centre had quadrupled while its size had halved. Has anyone forgotten that increasing numbers of councils are paying companies to run the leisure centres that Londoners built and paid for and continue to maintain. Within these they can run highly profitable / surplus-creating (delete where applicable) businesses and we the owners and voters have no idea what the business arrangement is - how much is recouped if the centre, state of the art new construction, is a runaway success.

Recently we drew readers attention to these statistics on free swimming around the country.

"PENSIONERS in Haringey will no longer have free entry to borough leisure centres and disabled people will have to pay more in a council overhaul of pricing."

(Via Hornsey Journal Pensioners to lose free entry to leisure centres: .)

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